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Some music nostalgia and electronic media
Aug. 29th, 2022 10:38 pmI had a sudden desire to listen to one of my favorite Fall Out Boy albums, Save Rock and Roll, the other day and oh man, I still love that album. So I listened to it again today as well as their follow up, American Beauty/American Psycho and their 2018 one, Mania. Then I did a shuffle thing where I listened to the full album that the specific song that came up belonged to, and there were about 5 additional I ended up fully listening to today. It was nice. Sometimes I forget that.
Remember when we'd have to wait to get a full album when we had to go to the music store to purchase? Yeah, I do and in some ways, it was nice to solely focus on a single new album, rather than have, at a monthly cost, nearly everything at your fingertips.
If I really like things nowadays, I started buying the mp3 album and saving it to my computer. Mainly because I want to be able to say I own something again, even if it is digitally.
It's like buying ebooks these days. You can buy them, yes, often for the same as paperback cost, but they're never really yours. You can download it but ultimately it's encrypted and unless you have figured out a way to decrypt it and save it, the company who sold you the ebook can remove it from your library.
This especially has been made clear with what's happening with the discovery+ and Warner Bros merger and all the projects getting marked as a loss for tax purposes and thrown into a vault. It's such a shame.
But it was nice to listen to full albums today. I have a whole list of mp3 albums to buy (as I haven't bought a CD in years!) so it will be a while to catch up but I will do it.
Remember when we'd have to wait to get a full album when we had to go to the music store to purchase? Yeah, I do and in some ways, it was nice to solely focus on a single new album, rather than have, at a monthly cost, nearly everything at your fingertips.
If I really like things nowadays, I started buying the mp3 album and saving it to my computer. Mainly because I want to be able to say I own something again, even if it is digitally.
It's like buying ebooks these days. You can buy them, yes, often for the same as paperback cost, but they're never really yours. You can download it but ultimately it's encrypted and unless you have figured out a way to decrypt it and save it, the company who sold you the ebook can remove it from your library.
This especially has been made clear with what's happening with the discovery+ and Warner Bros merger and all the projects getting marked as a loss for tax purposes and thrown into a vault. It's such a shame.
But it was nice to listen to full albums today. I have a whole list of mp3 albums to buy (as I haven't bought a CD in years!) so it will be a while to catch up but I will do it.
